Master of the Stralsund Young Altarpiece

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The Boy Altar (2007)

Master of the Stralsund Young Altarpiece is the emergency name of a Low German sculptor from the first half of the 15th century. The master of the Stralsund Young Altar got his emergency name after his main work, the carved altar of the Stralsund family who immigrated from Lübeck . The side altar, which is located in the Nikolaikirche in Stralsund, is only partially preserved.

The wooden figure of a crowned Madonna in the middle part of the altar was compared with stone figures on the former rood screen of the Marienkirche in Lübeck. The rood screen of the Marienkirche in Lübeck was destroyed in the fire after the air raid on Lübeck on March 29, 1942 . Because of this combination of works, which went back to the art historian Walter Paatz , the master of the Stralsund boy altar was also called the rood screen master . His workshop was presumed to be in Lübeck. The attribution of Lübeck stone sculpture from the beginning of the 15th century is a highly controversial subject to this day, which also includes the master of the Stralsund Young Altarpiece. According to the current state of research, Paatz's view and attribution can no longer be followed. The Young Madonna was carved from walnut , which was not allowed to be processed in the Lübeck carving workshop. The rood screen figures of the Marienkirche in Lübeck are made of Baumberger sandstone and thus possibly not from Lübeck at all, but a Westphalian work.

literature

  • Anna Elisabeth Albrecht: Stone sculpture in Lübeck around 1400. Foundation and origin. Reimer, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01172-6 (also: Kiel, Univ., Diss., 1994).

supporting documents

  1. ↑ The rood screen figures were only put up again in the church in 1987 after their restoration.
  2. ↑ The Lübeck stone sculpture from the first half of the 15th century. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1929 ( publications on the history of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck 9, ZDB -ID 520795-2 ), p. 42ff.
  3. ↑ So also Max Paul: Sundische and Lübische art contributions to Low German art history. Paul, Berlin 1914 (Greifswald, Phil. Diss., 1914).
  4. ↑ Albrecht, pp. 135-145.
  5. ↑ Albrecht, p. 143.
  6. ↑ Albrecht, p. 144.
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Stralsund Young Altarpiece
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Low German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century